| CAM CAFÃ: This Wednesday wind down with tapas, refreshments and the guitar music of Rob  Nathanson (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm) more, Thursdays is the full dinner menu with this week's highlights of Lamb Burgers, Local Fish + Chips and Pork Porterhouse, both nights 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Stop in for the Café's tasty Lunch Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am - 3:00 pm and Sunday Brunch. Reservations are always appreciated: 910.777.2363. PUBLIC PROGRAMS: JAZZ @ THE CAM Series: Mangroove Jazz Quintet CAM/CFJS Members: $8.00, Non-members: $12.00, Students: $5.00 with valid college ID Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall Wrapping up the current season in musical style, welcome the Mangroove Jazz Quintet, performing as part of the jazz series for the first time. Drummer Manny "Mangroove" Santos band of musicians includes many area favorites with Teddy Burgh on flute and sax, Felicia "Fee" Jackson, vocals, Jack Krupicka on keyboard and Ryan Woodall on bass. Manny's music is heavily influenced by rhythm masters that include Elvin Jones, his ethnic Cape Verdean roots and his multi-cultural musical projects with Afro-Cuban and Brazilian artists. Purchase seats by phone. Have dinner before or after the concert, don't forget to make your Café reservations now, see above. CONCERTS @ CAM: UNCW and Friends Wednesday April 13 7:00 pm CAM Members and Students with valid college ID: $5.00,  Non-Members: $10.00 Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall Join us for a performance by UNC Wilmington faculty, students and guest artists offering a varied
repertoire of piano music, strings, and guitar. Sure to be a musical treat! Musicians include Dr. Barry Salwen, piano and The Accidentals, a student string ensemble. Click below to purchase seats, by phone and at the door. |
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:
She tells a story Brown Wing On view through September 11, 2016  She tells a story celebrates the work of fifty-two visual artists from CAM's permanent collection and connects the forms of visual and literary arts. Exploring the catalytic relationship between visual imagery and text, CAM invited fourteen Wilmington-area writers to compose new work inspired by these selections. This juxtaposition of visual with word illuminates how artists communicate their experiences, perspectives and world views through their chosen medium.
This exhibition recognizes these creators by the quality of their work. However, their gender and societal mores within the time they lived shaped their identity as artists, their work and the interpretation of it. By acknowledging and questioning these effects, this exhibition hopes to highlight the many contributions, past and present, of women in the visual and literary arts.
Writers participating in this exhibition include: Anna Lena Phillips Bell; Karen E. Bender; Wendy Brenner; May-lee Chai; Cara Cilano; Amrita Das; Nina de Gramont; Dina Greenberg; Celia Rivenbark; Gwenyfar Rohler; Emily Louise Smith; Bertha Boynkin Todd; Kelly Rae Williams; and Margo Williams. Sponsored in part by Corning.
Patchwork North America
Paintings by Virginia Wright-Frierson Brown Wing Film Room On view through July 17, 2016  From extensive travel by road and by air, Virginia Wright-Frierson (American, b. 1949) has created over one hundred paintings framing scenes, as if looking through a window, across the United States and Canada. She describes her intent, "We do see pollution and trash, factories, car accidents and roadwork, graffiti even on cactus and near petroglyphs, and much of North America is prairie that seems empty and unchanging for miles on end. But what I want to paint is the power of nature evidenced in storms, erosion, rock formations, and water; the adaptation of plants and animals to any environment, from the high mountains and glacial lakes of Banff, Alberta to the deserts of Arizona, the unspoiled vastness and endless variation, and the spirit and celebration of survival." Wright-Frierson's broad-ranging career is distinguished as painter, award-winning children's book author, illustrator, and large-scale public installation artist to include her celebrated bottle house inspired by artist Minnie Evans at Airlie Gardens, Wilmington, NC, and her extraordinary ceiling mural of evergreens and aspens reaching for the sunlight, installed at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado. The Bones Of Sculpture by Dustin Farnsworth Hughes Wing  On view through June 5, 2016 A native of Lansing, Michigan, Dustin Farnsworth's works are informed by the collapse of industry and depict the rusted mementoes of a bygone era in American culture and their effect on a future generation who will inherit these shattered vestiges of a broken dream - the American Dream. His work is a social commentary on the anxiety of a region thrown into chaos. His commentary is affective and raw, moving the viewer on a visceral level well beyond mere shock-value, yet at the same time it expresses a melancholy longing, a wistful remembrance of times past. Leaving his narratives intentionally vague, Farnsworth encourages his audience to turn inward and reflect upon the psychic drama presented before them. He reflects, "I create a lush, emotionally-charged rabbit hole to fall into and explore. These sculptures act as anthropological studies of cultural, familial and social heredity of a culture in the interim of post-industry and the coming age." Farnsworth earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A recent resident artist at Penland School of Craft (2012-2015) is now continuing his studio practice as a Windgate resident and Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015-2016). CAM debuts its new acquisition, The Bones Of in context of seven other works by this rising artist.
Hughes Wing  On view through July 10, 2016 Considered to be the oldest front curtain for a theater in the Americas, the original 1858 curtain from historic Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Wilmington, NC, has travelled to Cameron Art Museum for remedial art conservation and presentation to the public. Painted by Hudson River inspired artist, Russell Smith (Glasgow, Scotland 1812 - Glenside, PA 1896) the 14 foot x 32 foot curtain features a scene of mystic ceremony from ancient Greece. Painted in distemper on hand-sewn muslin, the curtain was originally 23 feet x 29 feet. Having undergone many alterations during the last 157 years (and as is customary with scene paintings), it was never intended to survive. However due to its inherent beauty and the important part it plays in the story of Thalian Hall and the Wilmington community, the Thalian Hall board of trustees and staff decided to pursue a course of remedial conservation, to include mending of tears and in-painting of select regions having suffered darkened tide lines of water damage. The galleries of Cameron Art Museum proved the only local site with sufficient space, staffing and environmental and security controls to complete the work.
This project was supported by the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources |
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